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Microscopy Gram Staining
Gram staining (sometimes called Gram's method) is the method in which bacterial species are differentiated into two groups: Gram-positive and Gram-negative, making it a differential staining method....
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Fruit and Flower Microscope Slides
The Fruit & Flower Prepared Microscope Slide Kit contains beautiful prepared slides that are ready to view under a biological microscope. This prepared slide set is the perfect gift for someone who...
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Live Blood under Darkfield Microscope
Blood cells captured with darkfield microscopy.The image above is of live blood cells captured with a 3 megapixel microscope camera on a lab biological microscope using the darkfield slider. When...
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Bacteria Under the Microscope with Different Objective Lenses
Microscope World recently took a Gram stain prepared slide of three different types of bacteria and captured images using different microscope objective lenses. The microscope used to view the bacteria...
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Painkillers under the Microscope
Maurice Mikkers has a passion for both science and photography. A few years ago when he was on strong pain medication, he got the idea to combine his passions and photograph pain killers under the...
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Tissue captured with HD Camera under Microscope
These images of tissue were capturing used the UX-1 Plan Achromat microscope and the HDCAM4 High Definition Microscope Camera. The HD camera is a video camera that allows for capture of images using...
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Whooping Cough under the Microscope
Bordetella Pertussis is a gram-negative, aerobic coccobacillus capsulate of the genus Bordetella, and it is the causative agent of whooping cough. Whooping cough is an infection of the respiratory...
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Ore Under the Microscope
An ore is a type of rock that contains sufficient minerals with important elements including metals that can be extracted from the rock for money. Examples of ore included quartz, gold, silver, copper,...
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Pen under Stereo Microscope
Microscope World took this pen:The pen was placed under the Richter Optica S6.7 stereo zoom microscope:S6.7 Stereo Zoom Microscope 6.7x-45xThis is what the pen grip looks like at 20x magnification:Pen...
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Importance of Color Reproduction in Scientific Images
Human eyes receive light via two photoreceptors: cones and rods. When looking at objects under different lighting conditions, humans tend to see the same objects as having the same color. For example,...
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Factors Affecting Color Reproduction in Microscopy Images
There are several factors that affect color reproduction when capturing images under the microscope. It is important to keep color reproduction as consistent as possible in digital microscopy. You can...
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How to Optimize Color Performance for USB Cameras
Optimizing color performance for USB microscope cameras is just as important as setting up the microscope properly. This post was created with Lumenera microscope cameras in mind, but applies to many...
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Caffeine under the Microscope
When caffeine enters the brain, it affects nerve centers that are responsible for neurological reward systems. In essence, caffeine makes you feel good and the releasing of dopamine in the prefrontal...
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Rhodospirillum Rubrum (Bacteria) under Microscope
Rhodospirillum rubrum is a gram-negative, pink colored Proteobacterium. This type of bacteria is known as a facultative anaerobe, which means it can use alcoholic fermentation under low oxygen...
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Plankton (Chaetoceros) under the Microscope
Chaetoceros sp. is one of the largest genus of marine planktonic diatoms with approximately 400 species. Chaetoceros is a centric diatom with very lightly silicified frustules. Each frustule posseses...
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Noctiluca under the Microscope
Noctiluca is a dinoflagellate commonly known as "sea sparkle" because it exhibits bioluminescence when disturbed. This free-living, non-parasitic species is found in the marine environment. Noctiluca...
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Etaluma Lumascopes
Microscope World is proud to offer the entire line of Etaluma Lumascopes. Etaluma offers three Lumascope inverted compact microscope options. These microscopes are ideal for live cell imaging, checking...
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Air Pollution Science Project
For this student science project examining air contaminants you will need the following items:Blank glass microscope slidesVaselineDissecting MicroscopeDissection MicroscopeTake a minimum of five...
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Salmonella under the Microscope
Salmonella is a genus of rod-shaped bacteria found worldwide in both cold-blooded and warm-blooded animals as well as in the environment. Strains of Salmonella cause illness such as typhoid fever,...
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Pseudo-nitzschia (Algae) under the Microscope
The genus Pseudo-nitzschia includes several species of diatoms known to produce the neurotoxin known as domoic acid, a toxin that is responsible for the human illness called amnesic shellfish poisoning...
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